[128669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Aug 13 23:24:22 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:23:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <m2iq3dq4wh.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> ...
> if the iana could get out from under lawyers and domainer greed, and go
> back to simply being bookkeeper for the internet, they could do the
> automated solution today. well, with some months of setup. and we
> could get rid of 95% of the costs the rirs are sucking from our thinning
> bloodstreams. or a gutsy rir could lead the way. fat chance.
If the allocation and reassignment of address space has no policy associate=
d=20
with it, then there's no doubt that most of the registry functions can be=20
automated, and there's no need for the associated policy development proces=
s,
public policy meetings, travel, conference calls. Quite a bit of savings
available there, but the community first has to decide on permanent policy
(or lack thereof :-) for that automated world before we can reap the saving=
s.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
